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...performers like Tommy Steele, Des O'Connor and Fyvush Finkel, who, like much of their audience, have seen their best years but are still going strong. The ship's band plays classic Palm Court compositions from the romantic past. In the British-style pub, a sextet of middle-aged jazz musicians splendidly re-creates the New Orleans sound. Excerpts from Broadway and West End productions are scheduled to start in late May. "Where else," asks Scotsman Reg rhetorically, "can a wealthy senior citizen go on vacation, unaccompanied, in absolute security, surrounded by the best of service, for as long...
DIED. JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, 78, virtuoso flutist who helped restore the instrument to the elevated position it occupied during the 18th century; in Paris. His repertoire ranged from the Baroque giants to jazz and Asian rhythms...
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...aurally esoteric as possible, with Grenadier's bass line rarely walking and Rossy's beat rarely metered. It never came off as pretentious, but nevertheless made for a challenging listen. Mehldau joked at the end of the set that perhaps only one melody would have not escaped recognition, the jazz standard "Alone Together," that is, if he had not "butchered the melody...
...been criticized for being overly verbose. Yet it would be extremely reductive to base a judgment of music solely on how compelling it is. Beyond cursory appearances, Mehldau has a style that rightly deserves recognition. It is with little doubt that he will be one of the most significant jazz performers of our time. Perhaps it is because Mehldau is so gifted that comparisons to Evans are constantly made, or as one audience member boldly pointed out, "The comparisons that are made between Mehldau's trio and that of Evans's are mostly because it's three white guys playing...